Cabinet for brick or cake ice cream



Feb. 19 19,24.A

W. F. BEATTY CABINET FOR BRICK OR CAKE ICE CREAM Filed oct? 10,. 1921 May/:Wrap:

47' rop/Vix Patented Feb. 19, 19224.

WILLIAM r. BEATTY, ory CINCINNATI, oI-IIo.v

CABINET FOR BRICK OR ,CAKE ICE CREAM.

Application filed October 10, 1921.

To all whom it may cof/warn:

Be it known that I, lWILLIAM F. BEATTY, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ghio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cabinets for Brick or Caker vIce Cream, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to sales or storage and serving cabinets used by dispensers of ice-cream and the like in cake or brick form at serving-counters or elsewhere, and the prime object of my vinvention herein is to provide a retail-sales and individual or Adivisible serving cabinet that has in its( structure a main ice or refrigerating re-v ceptacle, a multiple of horizontal, tubular or .tunneled compartments or elongated pockets supported in the refrigerating-medium of the said receptacle and with openings leading to the outside of the insulated walls of the receptacle,^a slidable drawer or tray for each of said horizontally-arranged tunneled compartments and adapted to contain or hold ice-cream in wrapped, y

merchantable, individual brick or wrapped divisible block forni for retail sales or for individual personal service, as the case may be or as occasion may require, and such drawer or tray being of V-shape cross-section and having a closing-head'at its outer end to fill the outer end or mouth of the said tunneled compartment and thereby prevent the undesirable entrance of warm air to said tunneled compartment and its brick or block cream contents. I-Ieretofore, individual-brick and divisible-bloei;

ice-cream have been placed in tin boxes eachl holding a quart or like measured quantity of the ice-cream in said forms in cylindrical, large, metal freezer-cans that, in turn, were placed in wooden barrels or tubs, with a supply or charge of broken-ice and coarse salt surrounding the large freezer-canin said barrel, which has `been inipracticable and inconvenient, as well as untidy and not strictly sanitary or economical. I nowV propose to rectify such former defects in the provision of my cabinet herein that I shall now proceed to describe in detail in connection with the accompanying sheet ofI drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of the cabinet, showing its exterior' only; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section taken on the central Serial No. 506,682.

dotted-1in@ e, e, of rig. i, Showing the in-v ternal structure of the cabinet that embodies my invention herein; Fig. 3, a transverse section taken on the perpendicular.

dotted-line 3, 3, of Fig. 2, still furtherelearing the disclosure of my invention herein; and Fig. 4, a perspective view of the `peculiarform of slidable service-drawer or brick ice-cream container-tray used in my cabinet herein. y

The cabinetis a square or cubic struc,- ture composed of` opposite end-walls A and B, opposite side-walls C and D,"bottoinEl and top F, allduly insulated and the said top F having an elongated openingGr that y is provided with an insulated lid or cover I-I for access to the interior to fill it with ice or other freezing or refrigerating medium I, and for vcleaning; or` repairing the interior when desired. Thus far there jis'vr /nothing new about the" cabinet itself, but

'what I wish to state herein as new I will v now proceed to describe in detail, and i-t is certainly exceedingly simple, effective, kdesirable and very economical to produce and as best seen in Fig. 2.l Both of these tubular arranged or set so that their four flat sides shall lie at oblique planes or at'angles yof forty-five degreesto the innerwvalls of the cabinet, as best shown in Fig.- 8, rather' made elongated and of` thereof being closed and4 suitably secured `to the inner face ofthe rearend-wall ,B and ythe other end 7 beingl open and 'extending Aflush through the fore-wall A of the cabinet,

compartments form tunnels, as it were, open t' to the serving-front of the cabinet, and are than with said flat sides lying parallel to the'top and side walls of said cabinet, and whereby any meltings of the ice'A may freely Ldripfrom the inclined sides and to avoid 'anylo'dging or shelving of the-ice or meltings on the said tunnels. Besides, the'tunnels are best adapted, when set. at said oblique position, to contain or accommodate my special and peculiar `form `of drawer or tray 8 used' in each-tunnel and which I will now endeavor to describe and point out Y in detail. f

Each drawer or tray 8 is composed of a body-portion of V-shaped cross-section, having a triangular rear-end 9 and a square fore-end l0, the latter having a convenient handle 1l and being adapted to close the mouth of the tunnel. when the drawer or tray is in its normal or proper place within the cabinet and effectually shutting out lany undesirable warm air and other things laccurately removed one or more of the individual cakes from the tray for either retail or other sales service, or for personal distribution at counters or direct to the individual consumer, respectively, as desired.

rlhe trays can, of course, be used to hold the commodity in block form, of large or small size, that is to be cut down into individual cakes, bricks, or slices, as occasion may require.

The location of the tunnels in the cabinet is ysuch that said loaded trays are inclosed free from any possible contact with the interior of the cabinet or its refrigeratormedium contents and, also, from the outside -air or other obnoxious or harmful influences,

and the space Within the cabinet is fully utilized to at least double the capacity of former cabinets in which b-ut a single upright can of ice-cream in brick form of singlel capacity could be accommodated `and properly kcared for, or, yin other words, two of my horizontal trays, or even more than two, can be properlycared for in the cabinet made as I now have it and as described and shown herein, where but 1 one vertical can could be cared for in the same cabinet-space and with very materially less ice-cream bricks therein.

Instead of using `a tunnel closed at one lend a tunnel can be used extending clear across the cabinet, open from end to end and with a pair of trays 1n each tunnel, but shorter ones, of course, and with their inner ends abutting, if found desirable, and each` tray provided with a square 'closing-head 10 to exclude the outside air and so forth. Further still, the cabinet is adapted to contain quite a large number of my peculiar form of drawers and tun-nels and each one to hold a different kind or iiavor of cream or commodity in its frozen state, in brick or block form, individual or divisible, as desired, and the outerclosing-head Aduly labeled to indicate the contents of the respective trays, for great convenience in dispensing. i

several tunnels as being ribbed or corrugated at 12 to provide a sliding-surface for the trays and to reduce the chance of frost forming on the inner faces of the tunnel bottoms to such an extent as to make the trays stick in the tunnels, which .might otherwise happen just when not expedient at all and render it diliicult to remove said trays.

A suitable draw-off cock (not shown) may be provided near the bottom of the cadinet to drain it at any time. The lid need not be opened except to replenish with ice or cold refrigerant, or to clean the interior, thus saving on ice and brine.

I claim A brick ice-cream cabinet comprising a main rectangular or box-like hollow structure having insulated top, bottom and vertical walls and adapted to contain within its entire interior a .supply of refrigeratingmedium, a lid-closed orifice in the top of the structure for access thereto in the lilling 4therein of the said refregerating-medium and in cleaning its said interior, a multiple of square-section horizontal tubes having corrugated bottoms and supported within said hollow structure to provide tunnels or tubular-compartments that extend across the interior of the structure and with each tube open at one of its ends to the outside of the cabinet but sealed or closed. otherwise aginst leakage from the surrounding refrigerating-medium within, the structure,

and an elongated tray or drawer reinovablyinserted in each of said tunnels or tubularcompartments and .having a square-shaped head that is adapted to close the vmouth of the tunnel or tubular-compartment when said drawer is in using-position within the cabinet and with the *bottoni or body-portion proper of the drawer in a V-shaped cross-section and adapted to contain the brick ice-cream commodity for ready apportioned-service from the cabinet, and the lsaid square-section tunnels or tubular-compartments being arranged within the structure so that their four flat-faced walls shall lie at oblique planes to the sides 4of the cabinet and so that the angles or corners thereof may present ready-drip faces and edges for the said refrigerating-medium, especially when it is composed of broken or chopped ice, within the cabinet, substantially as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM F. BEAT'IY. 

